Moderation and Development Party

The Moderation and Development Party is a centrist political party in Iran, founded in 1999. The party was a part of the modernist right, the moderate reformist, and the technocrat factions of Iranian politics, with most of its supporters coming from the upper-level bureaucracy, from industrialists, and from managers. The party supported modernization and economic growth instead of social justice, and the party, the Executives of Construction Party, and the Islamic Labor Party aligned themselves with the "republican right". The party's leaders were Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani, two moderate reformists.